Guide to Birds - Softcover

Birds Edition: Reprint

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0307244903 ISBN 13: 9780307244901

Publisher: Golden Books, 1977

Synopsis

BIRDS Bringing the world of Birds to your fingertips, Fandex presents the ideal field guide. The images are large, the details sharp, the colors bright. Each die-cut profile is unmistakable - it's like having the real bird in your own hand. There are instantly accessible details about each bird's habitat, range, diet, nest, eggs and conservation status, as well as appearance, habitats and even song pattern, Plus "pigeon milk" and the Indigo Bunting's ability to navigate by starlight, how the Killdeer fakes injury to distract predators, and Benjamin Franklin's surprising nominee for America's national bird. - 50 individually die-cut cards - Full color throughout - Knowledge at your fingertips - For the whole family

About this title

From the Publisher

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BALTIMORE ORIOLE

Icterus galbula

Halloween comes to mind when a male Baltimore oriole, with its flame-orange and black plumage, flashes into view. By late October, however, this songbird may be seen only occasionally at feeders, as it migrates in colorful flocks from its summer territory throughout the East, It's named not for the Maryland port city on Chesapeake Bay, but for its color scheme, which is the same as that of Lord Baltimore's family, the 17th century founders of the Maryland colony.

Other orioles - Bullock's in the West, the spotted in Florida, and the orchard throughout the East and South - are similar in size, coloration, habits, and diet. Indeed they're known to interbreed and produce hybrids.

Orioles are most commonly seen in broken woodlands, forest edges, parks, open fields, garden, and at feeders. They forage for a wide variety of insects and spiders, and also like berries, other fruits, and flowers nectar.

Versatile singers, orioles can chatter like squirrels, whistle a long melody, and deliver a somewhat forlorn two-note call.

Field Notes

Habitat: Wooded areas, parkland in city, suburb, and country, alongside roads and streams.

Range: Everywhere east of the Rockies except the lower Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf Coast. Bullock's oriole is found throughout the western states.

Diet: Insects and spiders of all kinds, fruits, flower nectar.

Nest: Sack of fibrosis materials suspended at the end of a drooping branch in a deciduous tree.

Eggs: Usually 3 to 5; blue-gray to white with some darker markings.

Status: Not threatened.

Excerpted from Fandex Family Field Guides: Birds. Copyright (c) 1998 by Workman Publishing. Reprinted by permission of Workman Publishing.

About the Author

Golden Guides first appeared in 1949 and quickly established themselves as authorities on subjects from Natural History to Science. Relaunched in 2000, Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press feature modern, new covers as part of a multi-year, million-dollar program to revise, update, and expand the complete line of guides for a new generation of students.

About this edition

• Publisher: Golden Books
• Publication date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0307244903
• ISBN 13: 9780307244901
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1